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I mean I suppose it's all fairly straightforward in as much as Young was the obvious weak link in the World Cup team, he's gone now hopefully never to return and we carry on building. But Welbeck sticks out like a sore thumb. Doesn't really play at club level, hasn't had a good season for years, doesn't play as a main striker or where Raheem "worse international strike rate than Martin Keown" Sterling plays for England so who exactly is he covering...it's just weird. I'm convinced that they just keep forgetting to delete him off the list because his name's at the bottom.

Not many keeping options tbf. I thought about questioning Butland but he'll be third choice keeper, so no danger of playing, and will be dropped again once Heaton has played a few more games for Burnley. I would hope.

He decided to call up Solanke before he had even been given his first start in English league football, let alone scored a goal so there's another one.

Surprised he has called RLC up considering he has barely played and seems to be behind even Barkley in the pecking order. Would have called up Maddison over RLC, he needs to get gametime and he isn't going to get that at Chelsea so unless he leaves shouldn't be in the team.

Otherwise, no major complaints. Young is gone, thankfully and as Rose is fit left-back shouldn't be too much of an issue. We are rid of Cahill and have improved there with Gomez. I find his love for Lallana a bit strange and again think Maddison would have been a better choice but he can be okay on his day so not complaining too much. The squad is decent, what you would expect. Only one who I don't think should be anywhere near the squad is Welbeck.

No real complaints with that squad, won’t lose sleep over how many first team appearances someone has made either. International football is changing to a point that the quality level at times is lower than a good PLgame.

Lallana gone back to Liverpool (presumably to be turned into glue) and Marcus Bettinelli called up. Four 'keepers now in the squad. Top work Gareth. I know he's riding a high right now but the way he chooses his squad leaves a lot to be desired.

I think the summary is if we win our Group with Croatia and Spain we automatically qualify for the Euros. If we don't, we qualify in the usual way, by beating San Marino and lots of teams from the Balkans.

UEFA Nations League & Euro 2020 Qualification

Originally Posted by Tony Towner

I think the summary is if we win our Group with Croatia and Spain we automatically qualify for the Euros. If we don't, we qualify in the usual way, by beating San Marino and lots of teams from the Balkans.

Thatís not my understanding but I may be wrong. I understand it as the Nations league provides four spots to Euros. One from each of A, B, C and D. So if we win our group we play the Semis and then final. Of which the winner gets the spot. The same happens in all the other groups. So basically one of the shit munchers in group D is guaranteed a spot in the Euros. The majority of A and B will get in the Euros (either from nations league or qualification) and some of C. So the Euros will be filled with even worse teams than it was last time.

Edit -Also qualification playoffs are scrapped and replaced by these nations league play offs. So 3rd place in your group is irrelevant. You need to have done well in you nations league group.

The bit I donít understand is where if youíve already qualified for the Euros, then your nations league playoff spot is given to next best record. And as group A will all qualify automatically then it says group B are promoted to fill berths and so on. This doesnít seem right? Letís say Holland donít qualify, and they are the only team in Pot A in play offs as everyone else did. Slovakia win group B but didnít make it in euros. Do they then have the disadvantage of having to play Holland in the group A play offs instead of some other weaker group B nation.

Not that England games on Sky is a new thing, they had the rights for a good decade or more through the 90s and 00s.

It isn't but if you want to increase the interest in a flagging International scene (outside of major tournaments) then sticking them behind a paywall isn't the way to do it. It strikes me as UEFA don't really care about people watching it or reaching a new audience and would rather take the money anyway.

You are doubtless correct but, Christ, what a blinkered attitude to take towards a marketing opportunity.

It's UEFA, nothing surprises me. They managed to take a fantastic international tournament, ruin it in terms of structure and now they've ruined it in terms of hosting as well. Probably the biggest dictionary definition of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" that there is in a modern sporting context.

They only care about the bottom line. For instance there are no FTA highlights of any Champions League or Europa League games this year as well as no live FTA games. They don't care that it's shoved away on BT and millions of people can't/won't pay for it. BT pay them enough, you get the gig, fuck the consumer.